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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Echo Swinford is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional). When she’s not working on new media, she is answering almost all the questions on the PowerPoint newsgroup. Echo is also the co-author of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit, published by Que. The other author of this book is the owner of this blog — so I thought it will be fun for one author to interview the other!
Visit Echo’s site Echo’s Voice to find several PowerPoint usability tricks.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Books, Echo Swinford, Interviews, PowerPoint 2007
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Although you can copy and paste an Excel sheet inside a PowerPoint slide, there’s so much more you can do to make the entire Excel-in-PowerPoint thing more useful. Microsoft Excel possesses an amazingly intuitive and powerful calculation engine, and tons of formulae. We would like to leverage these capabilities of Excel while running a PowerPoint slide show.
Naresh Nichani and Brain Reilly show you more.
Leverage Excel’s capabilities while running in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002 for Windows.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Excel, PowerPoint, PowerPoint All Versions, Programming, Tutorials
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The linear presentation approach has gone fundamentally unchallenged until recent years when something changed. It wasn’t the presenters (they actually liked the straight-forward simplicity) and it wasn’t really the software. It was certain audience types and we had better pay attention.
Jim Endicott challenged a long-standing norm and offer a simple solution.
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Thoughts
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Tommy Powell of Neuxpower says that NXPowerLite version 3.5 has just been released.
NXPowerLite 3.5 adds support for Microsoft’s Open XML (Office 2007) file formats and offers improved Outlook integration. It is also now available in Chinese. In addition, NXPowerLite 3.5 is available as a free upgrade to existing NXPowerLite 3 users.
Download a free trial version of NXPowerLite here.
For those who are not aware, NXPowerLite is a file optimization program for Microsoft Office file formats.
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Leaders of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit are spending the day showing Macworld Expo attendees the new Office 2008 for Mac applications.
Marcus Aiu, lead program manager of PowerPoint for Mac, is showing many new features in the presentation program. He earned applause, for example, when he demonstrated the ability to use Apple’s remote control to page through slides.
Todd Bishop discusses more on the Seattle P-I site.
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PowerPoint 2008
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